A 32-year-old New Brunswick man was arrested on a drug charge Aug. 29 on Hamilton Street.
Members of the Somerset County Prosecutor’s Office Organized Crime and Narcotics Task Force and the Franklin Township Police Department Crime Suppression Unit were conducting a “quality of life” detail in the area when they saw Marcelino Ortiz, of Harvey Street, talking to several people while on a bicycle in a parking lot, according to a press release from the Somerset County Prosecutor’s Office.
Task Force detectives found that Ortiz had three outstanding warrants, for which they placed him under arrest, according to the release. A search of Ortiz revealed 10 glassine folds of suspected heroin, the release said.
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